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JOSEPH RAUWALD, JOHN H'UWALD| J. G. RAUWALD, E. H. RAUWALD & F. HAUWALD.v

SAFE.

APPUCATJON FILED MAR. J5, 1915. 1,185,539. Patented May 30,1916.

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terior is dustproof, fireproof and "UNTTED STATES PATENT oFFreE. I

JOSEPH RAUWALD, JOHN RAUWALD, JOSEPH G. RAUWALD, EDMUND H. RAUWALD,

AND FRANK RAU'WALD, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNORS TO SAID' JOHN RAUWALD.

' SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1915. Serial No. 14,599.

i To all whom t may concern:

Be it known' that we, JOSEPH RAUWALD, JOHN RAUWALD, JOSEPH G. RAUWALD, ED- MUND H. RAUWALD, and FRANK RAUWALD, all citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear and exact description thereof.

Our invention consists in what is herein' particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, one of its objects being'to economically provide altar tabernacles having advantages over the one disclosed in Letters PatentrNo. 841,180, of January 15, 1907. However the structure disclosed may be made to Serve as a safe for various valuables, and when closed, its inordinarily burglar-proof.

Figure 1 of the drawings .represents a4 horizontal section of a structure in accordance with our invention on the yplane indicated by line 1-1 in Fig. 2, looking up, the top of an inner chamber of the structure bepartly broken away; Fig. 2, avertical section of said structure partly broken away, the plane of the section being indicated by line 2--2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a rear elevation of a fragment of the structure partly in section as indicated by line 3 3 in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4, a partly sectional view of another fragment of said structure, this view being indicated by line 4 4 in Fig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5

indicates a cast-metal frame constituting the front of an angular all metal casing, and the frame is provided with rearwardly extending jamb-flanges 6 having curved inner ends. Sheet-metal top and bottom plates 7, 8, re-

spectively of the casing are bolted or otherwise rigidly secured on rear upper and lower ledges of the frame, and sheet-metal side walls 9 of said casing are fitted in vertical grooves of rearwardly extending sides of said frame. The top-plate 7, bottom plate 8 and the side walls 9 are riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to inturned flanges of a sheet-metal rear wall 10 of the casin Within the casing aforesaid is a cham er comprising cast-metal top and bottom plates 11, 12, respectively and a sheet-metal shell 13 constituting the side and rear walls of the chamber, upper and lower edges of the shell being engaged with grooves provided in said plates. Outside of the shell 13, the plates 11 and 12 are held together by bolts 14 and nuts 15. The chamber plates 11, 12 and the casing plates 7, 8, are bolted to intermediate v pivots 16, 17, respectively. The chamber is supported in the casing clear of the top, bottom and walls of the same, and thus an airspace is had all about said chamber.

The lower pivot 17 is for oppositely offset ends of a pair of cranks 18 for the most part on the same horizontal plane, and each crank constitutes a carrierA for a curvilinear slidlng door 19, the door being bolted toa fiange of the crank. The doors 19 serve to close the front of the casing, their closing movement being limited by the j amb-flanges 6 of the frame 5 in the paths of flanges 19 of said doors. The oppositely offset ends of the door-carying cranks 18 are spaced apart by a washer 20, and another washer 21 is vof the casing or chamber. .A ange of each crank 22 is bolted to a door 19, and a bevelgear segment 22 on the offset end of each crank engages a bevel-gear pinion 24 fast on a rod 25 that has ,bearing in the pivot 16, turning of the rod serving to actuate the doors in opposite directions to open or close the casing. The pinion 24 of the rod 25 is adjusted in the segments of the cranks 22 by means of a nut 26 that turns on the inner end of said rod against a washer 27 facing the pivot 16.

The rod 25 is preferably connected to the spindle 28 o'f a lock-cylinder 29 of common` knowledge, a `lapjoint and bolt connection` of said rod andspindle being shown. The lock-cylinder is fitted in the front frame 5 of the aforesaid casing,'and the manipulation of its spindle by a key 30 serves to actuate the rod 25 and thereby impart motion to the doors of 'said casing.

-The casing-doors 19 are of any suitable construction, each of those shown being a cast-metal frame having a sheet-metal panel bolted thereto, and the door-frames are made to interlock when the casing is closed, as shown in 4F ig. 1, the joint being dust and flame proof. To insure the snug drawing together of the frames of the doors 19, the spindle 28 of the lock-cylinder is provided with oppositely extending cam-iingers 31 engageable with inner lugs 32 of said frames.

Trunnioned in the top and bottom plates .of the chamber within the casing aforesaid are swing-doors 33, provided with wings 34 in the paths of wipers 35 extending rearward from thejcasing-doors 19, whereby when the latter doors are run back to open said casing, the chamber-doors are swung to open position. The doors 33 are vided with rear flanges 36 that abut theshell of the chamber when said doors are closed to thereby form dust-proof joints, and said doors are made to lap one upon the other when in closed position as shown in Fig. 1.

" To insure a tight closing joint of the chamber doors, one of the same is provided with a spring-arm 37 opposed by a wiper 35 ofy one of the casing-doors inclosed position.

It is w1th1n the scope of our invention,

as herein claimed, to employ any suitabley vcomprising a casing having outer doors, a

' chamber in the casing, and provided with doors, and coperating means carried by the doors of the casing and the chamber for causing the chamber doors to be actuated by movements of the casing doors.

2. A structure comprising a casing, sliding doors by which to close the casing, means within said casing for locking the doors in closed position, inner. doors within the casing, and means actuated by the sliding doors for actuating the inner doors.

3. A structure .comprising an all metal casing, an'v all metal chamber in the casing clear .of the top, bottom and walls of the same, wherebv'air-spaceis had all about the I chamber; sliding doors by which to close said casing, supports for the chamber engaging the top and bottom walls of the casing, and means carried by the supports for operating the doors. j

4. A `structure comprising an all metal casing, an all metal chamber in the casing 'clear of the top, bottom and walls of the prosame, whereby air-space is had all about the chamber; fireproof sliding doors by which bywhich to close said casing, and means disposed between the chamber and casing by which the doors arel connected to have simultaneous movement in opposite directions.

6. A structure comprising an all metal casing, an all metal chamber supported in the casing clear of the top, bottom and walls of the same, whereby air-space is had all about the chamber; fireproof sliding doors connected to have simultaneous movement in opposite directions, means Jfor operating the doors and means with the casing for locking the doors in position to close said casing and chamber.

'7. A structure comprising a casing, a chamber therein, sliding doors by which to close the casing, pivotal carriers for the doors, pivotal cranks connected to the doors and having their pivot ends provided with gear-segments, a rod carrying a pinion in mesh with said segments, and a lock-cylinder within said casing having its spindle in connection with said rod to turn th'e same.

8. A structure comprising a casing, a chamber therein, sliding' doors by which to close the casing, pivotal carriers for the doors, pivotal cranks connected to the doors and having their pivot ends provided with gear-segments, a rod carrying a pinion in mesh with said segments, a lock-cylinder with said casing having its spindle in connection with said rod to turn the same, and cam-fingers extending in opposite directions from said spindle for engagement with lugs of said doors.

9. A structure comprising a casing having rearwardly extending jamb-langes of a front frame thereof, sliding doors having stop-flanges that abut said j amb-flanges when the doors are brought to closed position, and

meansby which said doors are connected to have simultaneous movement in opposite directions.

10. A structure comprising a casing, a chamber in the casing, sliding doors by which to close the casing, means by which said doors are connected to have simultaneous movement in opposite directions, swing-doors by which tol close the chamber, wipers with the casing-doors, and wings with the chamber-doors in the paths of said wipers when said casing-doors are retracted.

v11. A structure comprising a casing, a

" chamber in the casing, sliding doors by which to close the casing, means by which said doors are connected to have simultaneous movement in lopposite directions, swing-doors by which to 'close the chamber, a spring-arm extending from one of the chamber-doors, and a wiper with one of the casing-doors opposing said spring-arm when said casing and chamber are closed.

l2. A structure comprising a casing, a

chamber in the casing, sliding doors byv which to close the casing, means by which said doors are connected to have simultaneous movement in opposite directions, swing-doors by which to close the chamber,

'wings with the chamber-doors in the paths of said wipers when said casing-doors are retracted, and a spring-arm extending from one of the chamber-doors in opposition to a wiper of a closed casing-door.

13. A safe comprising a casing having voppositely moving sliding doors, said doors being provided with rearwardly projecting means for operating inner doors, a chamber within the casing and provided with doors,

` the chamber doors having outwardly prowitnesses.

JOSEPH RAUWALD. JOHN RAUWALD. J G. RAUWALD. EDMUND H. RAUWALD. FRANK RAUWALD. Witnesses:

FRANK A. FITZGERALD, p ADoLPH P.- LoFY. 

